Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Informal meetings with SMEs are rated important by 24% of organizers , but 48% of attendees find them crucial. Innovators are better equipped to meet these important attendee learning modalities than their Conventionalist counterparts. Sadly, three-quarters of you are not.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 16, 2021

And it made me think about meeting design. And, me being me, I thought about what Marcy had just said in the context of meeting design. And meetings are no exception. The art and craft of the meeting designer. It’s a meeting designer’s job to create these contextual layers.

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Gallus Events

AUGUST 18, 2016

I was recently referred to a hotel in Barcelona as a “meeting design expert” I popped along and had a look at a good (if rather too traditional) meetig space. I met with a couple of their senior team and tried to get handle on their interest in meeting design. How venues can support meeting design.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 6, 2019

As these experts work to understand changing consumer trends, preferences and behaviors, considerations must be made into meeting design to craft a truly relevant event, which target audiences will not want to miss. Consider these three key trends and how they can positively impact meeting design. Not sure where to start?

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Conferences that Work

MAY 11, 2020

In person meetings have vanished overnight. It’s time to implement what we’ve learned about great face-to-face meeting design and process into online meetings. Meetings will never be the same. So I won’t repeat myself here; read them for full details!

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 3, 2022

Here’s a rare opportunity to ask me anything about meeting design and facilitation at a unique, free, online workshop. When it’s over, you’re welcome to stay and socialize online, and I’ll stick around for informal chats. Meet, workshop with, and learn from other event professionals.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

So that’s what made me think that journalism, properly conceived is a service.” — Interview of Jeff Jarvis by David Weinberger A new definition of journalism: “…convening communities into civil, informed, and productive conversation, reducing polarization and building trust through helping citizens find common ground in facts and understanding.”

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

You can share some good information in a ten-minute talk, even if most of the audience will have forgotten it a month later. So when should you use the Conferences That Work design? Participant-driven and participation-rich events are messy and, by the standards of a content-dump-into-listeners-ears event, relatively inefficient.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 5, 2021

It turns out that trust and safety are prerequisites for optimum learning at meetings. How we learn at meetings. For over twenty years, we’ve known that adults learn 90% of what they need to know to do their job via informal learning. My books and this blog provide plenty of information on how to do this.

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Gallus Events

DECEMBER 11, 2018

I spoke at IBTM in Barcelona ( you can read the “review” here ) at the end of November on one of my favourite topics, Meeting Design or fresh formats for conferences. I then said the way to highlight these issues is to highlight the need for meeting design (or for the sake of this presentation “Fresh Formats”).

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Well, information dumps from an expert lecturer are one of the worst ways to learn anything important. All meeting design needs to recognize this reality. Want more evidence? And simple workshops that support connection (which may be emotional) between participants around relevant content provide better learning experiences.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 17, 2023

I am resigned to the fact that OpenAI ‘s Large Language Model ChatGPT has scraped every blog post I’ve written here (over 750 posts in the last 13 years—around half a million words) so it can parrot my thoughts about meeting design, facilitation, and other topics. ChatGPT is just a shell overlayed onto a data set.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 19, 2021

If you want maximum learning, interaction, and connection at a meeting, small meetings are better than large meetings. Here’s a little information about the groundbreaking ECTC. Increased learning, interaction, and connection. Producing Event Camp Twin Cities 2011.

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Gallus Events

MAY 2, 2017

Too many venues, especially hotels, are still designed and to house traditional conferences. If you want to run a creative conference, one that uses Meeting Design you have to find a venue that will really support your conference. In this post I thought I’d add a little Meeting Design Venue Check List!

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 12, 2019

And as we read what event organizers shared with us, we realized that there probably isn’t a single thing that happened at an event that anyone can put their finger on that will advance an industry or profession— it’s hundreds and thousands of things.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2017

I care about what we do and that the information is very usable. EVENT DESIGN. “My My first white paper, Mindful Event Design, was really driven around a physical sense of meeting design. I’m a person who really cares about practical work.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 13, 2017

This is all very well, but it begs the question: what can meeting designers do to make it easier for attendees to participate more at meetings? Sources for additional information. Every time I find myself wishing for an external event, I realize that I’m way better off focusing on something I can control instead.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 11, 2022

First, you need to understand before the meeting what your practitioners and suppliers want, need, and expect. As a meeting designer, if a meeting is going to include both practitioners and suppliers I always ask my clients about the relationship between these groups and their wants and needs.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 3, 2019

At the time, I had no idea that what I instinctively put together for a gathering of people who barely knew each other would lead to: a global design and facilitation consulting practice; over 500 posts on this blog, which has now become, to the best of my knowledge, the most-visited website on meeting design and facilitation; three books (almost!)

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Gallus Events

MARCH 22, 2016

3 Use meeting design to create the framework for great content. With these first two steps covered: bringing together the content expert and the programme expert, the next step was to add some meeting design. We had round table sessions which took place in the informal areas of the venue. and in small groups.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 25, 2024

Since 2005, I’ve written three successful books on meeting design and facilitation and over 800 weekly blog posts on a wide range of topics. My books continue to sell, and this blog is the world’s most popular website on meeting design and facilitation. Outwardly, I’ve succeeded. My 1977 Ph.D.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 25, 2019

Businesses that are setting up smart systems and underlying infrastructure to collect information, make sense of it, and translate it into tangible action are increasingly coming out on top. It demonstrates the idea of celebrating local surroundings in meeting design. Orchestrated Serendipity. Kelsey Ann Rose).

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 21, 2022

This coming June will mark my 30th year of designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich meetings. So I designed the workshop as an “ Ask Adrian Anything ” about meeting design and facilitation. I’ve shared the why? and the details of how I typically run this format here.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Having given the 200+ participants a wealth of information and ideas, my job was to get participants to critically respond to what they had heard. Luckily my process toolkit includes RSQP , a powerful method for rapidly exposing all this information and making it visible for all to see. Typical Participate!

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 11, 2021

For more information on how to do this, see my book Event Crowdsourcing: Creating Meetings People Actually Want and Need.). Since 2016, I’ve been participating in the annual, invitation-only Meeting Design Practicum conferences that have been held all over Europe. Complex problems.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The term wake evokes a more informal event and experience than that of a traditional funeral. As the registrations come in, I will use the affiliation information included to create appropriate descriptions for these rooms. I decided to start somewhat formally with everyone together, as in a traditional memorial service.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The NAS study gives us some important new information: “ [M]ost college STEM instructors still choose traditional teaching methods…We find that students in the active classroom learn more, but they feel like they learn less. . Let’s look at these three conclusions in the context of meeting design.

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GEVME

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Same goes for meetings format. Most of the meetings today are still about people sitting down and listening to one or more speakers. And in this information age of declining attention span, it is not a surprise to see that 73% of people acknowledge doing other work during meetings. .

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 11, 2021

What would an agenda look like that allows attendees to take as much or as little time as they need to absorb the information? The post What Meeting Profs Can Learn from Pop-Up Immersive Art Experiences appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 4, 2019

.'” Using peer to peer learning techniques, innovative technology, and creative meeting design, The EVENT ‘s objectives are to: encourage participants to collaborate with industry peers; cultivate new ideas; and elevate the entire meeting industry. I’m happy to offer a rare Participate!

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 29, 2021

And I know many great meeting professionals who strive to wear on their sleeve how they love being with people. Twenty years ago I was a successful, independent information technology consultant. What has surprised me during this journey is meeting so many meeting professionals I like along the way. Yay for us!

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Gallus Events

APRIL 18, 2017

It’s good to have a more informal session where late arriving attendees can join without missing the meat of the content. Add some meeting design. Meeting design. It is worth noting, this is not an extended “fire alarms and exit” session; that is too traditional for a modern day conference.

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Prestige Events Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2022

The team takes a consultative approach to meeting design, keeping atop of trends and holding board positions on a number of industry bodies. Christine will be working with customers to bring a creative vision to their events and meetings, ensuring organisers achieve a memorable experience.

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Gallus Events

MARCH 22, 2016

3 Use meeting design to create the framework for great content. With these first two steps covered: bringing together the content expert and the programme expert, the next step was to add some meeting design. We had round table sessions which took place in the informal areas of the venue. and in small groups.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Not so long ago, I think that the value in that experience is that you’re getting connected to some expert information that you couldn’t get otherwise. I would advocate for meeting designers to understand where is the bleeding edge in terms of truly inno-vative and meaningful content. In other words, the value is on the stage.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Not so long ago, I think that the value in that experience is that you’re getting connected to some expert information that you couldn’t get otherwise. I would advocate for meeting designers to understand where is the bleeding edge in terms of truly inno-vative and meaningful content. In other words, the value is on the stage.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 24, 2017

Sources for additional information. Participation techniques you can use in conference sessions Here’s the summary handout for my workshop on participation techniques you can use in conference sessions that I’ll be leading at MPI’s World Education Congress 2011.

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